Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> 4.3.4 Unison does not understand hard links.
>
> That's pretty unfortunate.  I guess the necessary consequence of this 
> is that Unison my dramatically increase the bandwidth needs and 
> storage needs on the remote side.  Imagine synchronizing a 4G ISO 
> image, which also has hardlinks to other names -- instead of 
> transferring and storing one 4G image, you are transferring and 
> storing n * 4G.
Yea, but who actually does this?  The common use of hardlinks went away 
with AT&T supporting UNIX.

Another way to put this is, "if its important to Sun, file the P4/5 bug 
to have Sun do the fix".

- jek3


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